The National Maori hockey tournament started in Gisborne last night with a hard-fought and entertaining encounter between a Tairawhiti men’s team and a Nga Hau e Wha composite side. Nga Hau e Wha won 4-2. This is the first time the tournament has...

Primary school rugby has a new trophy to play for — the George Bridge Shield. It is designed to be a smaller-schools counterpart to the Weka Ball, which is Poverty Bay primary school rugby's equivalent of the Ranfurly Shield. The inaugural game for...

I would like to congratulate Alice Kibble on standing for council. She is an extraordinary young woman with a great love for this community and its people. From an early age she volunteered for organisations, doing anything she could to make...

Muriwai farmer Geoff Tombleson was awarded Life Membership of the Gisborne A and P Show Association at the association's annual general meeting on Thursday night.“Geoff has been active in support of the Spring Show for more than 40 years,” said...

Starting a new business venture can be both an exhilarating as well as stressful time for many entrepreneurial Kiwis. The brave decision to “dip one’s toes” into the world of business should never be taken lightly. It requires everything from...

EASTLAND had some close matches on Day 2 of the junior badminton nationals in Palmerston North. Competing in Division 3, Eastland lost to Manawatu (2) 10-6 and to Taranaki 15-1. Against Manawatu, it was 4-4 after the doubles. Manawatu dominated the...

Beetham Lifestyle Village went into “lockdown” yesterday after a number of residents presented with gastroenteritis. A district health board spokesman said the lockdown was “normal procedure” in such cases. The situation was being closely...

Victor Walker received his New Zealand Order of Merit (ONZM) from Governor General Dame Cindy Kiro in Wellington this week. Mr Walker was recognised for his 35 years of service to the Māori community in Tairāwhiti. Uawa-based, Mr Walker has...

The rain-catcher sculpture at the Botanical Gardens is broken but the damage was not done by vandals.“The sculpture broke after a branch fell from a nearby gum tree last Thursday,” a Gisborne District Council spokeswoman said. However, more...

The Farmers’ Market is a very pleasant outing on a Saturday morning and the chance to stock up with fresh fruit and vegetables, have a cup of coffee with friends while listening to music. Why do people find it necessary to bring their stinking dogs...

Catherine Gillies thinks all abortions are bad; therefore in her counselling she frames all psycho-social distress as a consequence of abortion, even up to the third generation later, according to her op-ed on August 6. This is frankly ridiculous...

THE decision by the owners of a Gisborne campground to welcome all visitors regardless of vaccination status has been described as “crazy” by an epidemiologist. Tatapouri Bay Oceanside Accommodation owners Nathan and Shanti Foon in a statement on...

“The Man is a modern jester who holds court in the park and reaches out to his fellow citizens by questioning everything,” says the unnamed comedian/actor behind The Man. Inspired by London's Speakers' Corner, The Man blends stand-up and theatre...

RUGBYWAIKOHU are the Poverty Bay club rugby champions but they haven’t had a win on the park against their first 2019 opponents, High School Old Boys, in more than a year.“We can’t wait to play HSOB,” Waikohu premier coach Jason Tuapaw...

A retaining wall and stormwater catchment system are nearing completion as part of Eastland Port’s wharfside log yard development. The 1.8ha log yard will be able to store 10,000 tonnes of logs eventually, meaning fewer truck movements through the...

GISBORNE company McCannics will not be allowed to take part in the tender process for the $5.5 million H.B. Williams Memorial Library extension after an emergency meeting of Gisborne District Council refused to reverse an earlier decision. But the...

FRANK Burgess from Poariki Station at Pehiri will be remembered as a thorough and good farmer, a great husband, father and grandad, but he was also a poet, a writer, a sometimes aviator and radio ham. Above all the “man of few words” was...

Our region and all New Zealand has been let down enormously by Immigration NZ. A cancer specialist from Houston USA has spent recent years in the Palmerston North cancer treatment clinic as well as Gisborne Hospital, Dunedin Hospital and Otago...

How the forestry industry pays a fair share of local spending on roads, and what that might be, is set to be a hot topic during consultation for the Long-Term Plan early next year. A big step-up in funding is needed to make local roads, in...

Gisborne Girls’ High School student Sam Booth has won the MAINZ Best Musicianship Award At Tangata Beats for vocals and drumming in the band Salem. Sam had to learn the drums at the last minute when the band’s regular drummer could not make the...

This week we asked people walking along Gladstone Road what they thought of former All Blacks Dan Carter and Ali Williams being in the headlines recently for drink-driving and alleged cocaine use

Gisborne’s KFC fans had to go elsewhere for their dinner last night as staff went on strike at 5pm. Restaurant Brands, the owner of KFC, was notified of the nationwide strike action by the Unite union yesterday morning. Unite said for the past week...

THE Gisborne branch of the BNZ returns to extended hours from today. Previously, the branch was only open for two hours a day following Delta Covid-19 Level 2 restrictions.“BNZ's priority remains on protecting customers and staff, and it encourages...

The clubhouse was nearly empty. The course was nearly in darkness. But two intrepid Barns-Graham Cup men's pairs were still plodding the fairways as 19th-hole glasses were stacked and stragglers headed to the carpark bound for their warm homes and...

Badminton, surfing and rugby have kept many of the district's determined athletes on their game

A BOY was taken to Gisborne Hospital yesterday afternoon after he suffered a neck injury when he dived into the Waimata River at Anzac Park. A fire service crew on the way back to the city from the car crash at Turihaua were diverted to the park at...

WAIKIRIKIRI Park proved its worth as an all-purpose softball venue on Saturday. Numerous games took place despite intermittent rain that threatened to force the cancellation of senior matches throughout the day. With scheduled and catch-up games, the...

Gisborne health board Hauora Tairawhiti is making final adjustments to contingency plans for strike action by nurses tomorrow. Chief executive Jim Green said there would be significant disruptions to all services.“We have a very experienced...

HEALTH authorities are advising the public to take precautions with a stomach bug circulating in Tairawhiti. The health board’s Facebook page says the bug is affecting rest homes, primary schools and early childhood centres. Medical officer of...

WHANGARA Old Girls pulled off the result of their season to date when they defeated previously unbeaten YMP in premier netball at Victoria Domain on Saturday. Taste One High School Old Girls remain the only unbeaten premier-grade team in PAK'nSAVE...